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: Charge that the Western powers represented on the UN Disarmament Sub-Committee
Wete engaging in double-talk was made by the Soviet government in an official statement

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The statement, read by Val-
erian Zorin, Soviet represen-
lative on the disarmament

‘Sub-committee, said that the

stern powers, under pres-
Sure of public opinion for dis-
armament in their own coun-
‘ies, chad tried to create the
“‘Mpression that progress was
fing made. In fact, mot a

‘Single step forward had been
taken,

Defining the Soviet Union’s
attitude to the talks, the state-
Ment said it was “determined
fitst of all by the fact that

€ basis of the whole foreign
Policy of the Soviet Union is

€ principle of the peaceful
S0eXistence of states regardless
differences of social sys-
oes the desire to lessen in-
€rnational tension, to main-
n friendly relations and de-

“0p peaceful cooperation
With all peoples.”

The statement reiterated the
Proposals made by the Soviet
ae during the five months
of negotiations -— suspension

H-tests, total prohibition of
Auclear weapons and reduction
rs Conventional armaments. It
Scalled that the Soviet Union
7 Proposed elimination of all
; Teign military bases, reduc-
“8 the forces maintained in
eanany by the Great Powers

d cutting the NATO and

"saw pact forces.

wonese proposals, it noted,
ine linked with the necessary
—€tnational controls, includ-

§ aerial inspection in Europe.

conn Soviet government, it
opnued, “fully shares the

Nlons of the governments
Ro, Parliaments of various
Onin tS of* broad public
at Mion, and of scientists, that
4.mic and hydrogen weapon

tests Must be ended immedi-
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“Ssued in Moscow and read-to the sub-commitee here last week.

Soviet government has been
insisting in the UN organiza-
tions on the urgent implemen-
tation of this step.

“The need for the immediate
ending of atomic weapon tests’
is dictated, first of all, by the
fact that realization of such a
measure would provide an ef-
fective barrier to the further
perfecting of atomic weapons
and the creation of new and
still more «destructive types of
these weapons.”

But, the statement pointed
out, the Western powers had
actually been increasing their
military bases around the So-
viet Union and increasing their
prodution of atomic* weapons.

Zorin quoted figures show-
ing that the number of NATO
bases had increased from 15
in 1951 to 150 in 1957.

The Soviet government, he
said, could not disregard the
fact that a ring of United States
bases had been set up around
the Soviet Union.

“The deeds of the United
States belie their words as
they are carrying out plans
for placing nuclear weapons
at the disposal of their NATO
allies.”

Actually, he said, the talks
had been marking time while

the arms race continued.

The statement read by
Zorin for his government as-
serted that the Western powers
had projected questions of con-
trol into the foreground in an
effort to substitute discussion
of these questions for discus-
sion of the actual measures of
disarmament.

It instanced U.S. Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles’
earlier proposal for “aerial
photography as having “as its
object the collection of intel-
ligence information.”

U.S. politicians and NATO
leaders — Zorin named Gen-
eral Norstad, commander of
NATO forces and West Ger-
man Defense Minister Theodor
Strauss — openly proclaimed
their preparations “for atomic
war against the peace-loving
states,’ the statement con-
tinued, charging that they
wanted to use aerial photo-
graphy to obtain all the in-
formation they could “on the
siting of the Soviet Union’s
main industrial and communi-
cation centres.”

The statement emphasized
“that no inspection can shift
discussion of the disarmament
problem, from the state of
deadlock.”

Auto profits rise

200 p.c. in decade

DETROIT

By WILLIAM ALLAN
The great. profits in the last decade sweated out of the
workers by the auto barons — General Motors, Ford and Chrys-
ler — are out in the open for all to see, placed there by the
United Auto Workers as another phase of the pre-1958 contract

negotiations. 3

The increase in profits after
faxes for the three companies
1s? .

FORD ___ 265.2% (1948-1957)

Gi. 234 9% (1947-1957) .

CHRYSL’R 166.9% (1947-1957)

The Big Three in their prop-
aganda war against 1.5 million
auto workers’ demand. for a
shorter work week, a raise in
pay and no cut in take home
pay, charge this will cause
“inflation.” They cite figures
that wages have gone up since
1948 and claim this causes
higher car prices.

What they leave out and
what the union is revealing is
the enormous profits the cor-
porations have reaped from
boosts in car prices, automa-
tion, speed-up.

For example: Ford’s profit
position between 1948 and 1957
showed profits before taxes in-
creased from $170,500;000 to
an annual rate of $730,800,000.

Ford, in charging the: UAW

with causing ‘inflation” by
their economic demands, said
wages were up, 70 percent and
prices 30 percent but failed to
tell that this company’s proi-
its went up in the same period
238.6 percent.

Similarly GM profits before
taxes in 1947 amounted’ to
$554,000,000. In 1957 they are
running at an annual rate of
$1,994,000,000.

Harlow Curtice, GM _ presi-
dent said that wages in GM
went up. 72 percent, but left
out the fact that the profits
of the company increased 259.9
percent from 1947 to 1957.

Between 1947 and 1957
Chrysler profits before taxes
increased from $118,500,000 to
an annual rate of $381,400,000.

Chrysler wants the union, to
take an hourly wage cut as its
reply to UAW president Walter
Reuther’s request that car

prices be cut $100 on the 1958
models.

DISARMAMENT: SOVIET STATEMENT

VALERIAN ZORIN
Soviet representative

o strings to H-test ban

HAROLD STASSEN
U.S. representative

Western proposals
seen as step hack’

By LANCE SAMSON
LONDON

The Western disarmament
document “cannot be consid-
ered as offering anything of
genuine value,” contains no
step forward, and on some
topics is even a step backward,
Valerian Zorin, Soviet repre-
sentative, told the disarma-
ment conference: in London
last week.

Zorin gave a- 50-minute
speech at the UN Disarmament
Sub-Committee on his first
impressions of the document,

which he had received from.

the Western powers

barely
three hours’ earlier.

He pointed to three places
where the Western powers had
taken a step back from their
previous positions.

1 They had introduced yet
another condition for cuts
in’ forces manpower by
making second and third
stage cuts — ‘the only
ones representing real re-
ductions for the Western
powers — dependent on
other states joining in,

This would put the de-
cision to make such cuts
at the mercy of such op-
ponents of disarmament
as West German Chancel-
lor Konrad Adenauer.

2 They had made no pro-
posal "for cutting arms
budgets — only for giv-
ing information on the
budgets. Yet earlier in the
talks the U.S. had spoken

of a possible 10 percent
Cut.

3 They had altered their
proposals on the non-use
of nuclear weapons so as
to legalize the use of H-
bombs at the discretion of
any state.

This meant that all coun-
tries were free to use it in
“self-defense” — unqualified.
Earlier in the talks the West-
ern powers had hedged- this
around with suggestions that
these weapons should only be
used in self-defense in case
of massive attack.

Zorin also pointed out that
the latest Western proposals
on a halt in H-tests were only
a change from a suggestion of
a ten-month ban — tied to all
sorts of Gonditions — to a

12-month one, still tied to all
the conditions.

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